Analog Analytical Laboratory 1979 - 2012 f/m

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not without detectable trends. 1979 is the cut-off because I am using the Locus records and that's as far back as they go.



As I recall, f/t for Analog as a whole runs under 20%.

Year	Total	Female	Male	Unknown	F/T
	

2010s  16       2      14               0.125	
2000s  50       4.5    45.5             0.09	
1990s  44       3      40       1       0.07
1980s  46       1.5   44.5              0.03
	
2012	5	1	4		0.2	
2011	6		6		0	
2010	5	1	4		0.2	
2009	5	1	4		0.2	
2008	5		5		0	
2007	5		5		0	
2006	5	0.5     4.5		0.1	
2005	5		5		0	
2004	5	2	3		0.4	
2003	5		5		0	
2002	5		5		0	
2001	5	1	4		0.2	
2000	5		5		0	
1999	5	1	4		0.2	
1998	5		4	1	0	J. Hester & P. Scowen 
1997	5		5		0	
1996	5		5		0	
1995	4		4		0	
1994	4		4		0	
1993	4		4		0	
1992	4		4		0	
1991	4	1       4		0.25	
1990	4	2	2		0.5
1989	4	1	3		0.25	
1988	4		4		0	
1987	5		5		0	
1986	5		5		0	
1985	4		4		0	
1984	5		5		0	
1983	4		4		0	
1982	5		5		0	
1981	5	0.5	4.5		0.1	
1980	5		5		0
	
1979	4	1.5	3.5		0.38

Comments

[oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com]

It's averaged somewhat closer to 14%, I think. (Last year was an outlier, at 22%). Perhaps under new editorship it might do better. I'm not too sure when Trevor's first issue was, as he had to cycle through some of his predecessor's stockpile. But the latest has over 30% women: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/05/toc-analog-julyaugust-2013/ and the on before that had 50% women: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/04/toc-analog-june-2013/

From a previous discussion

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Year       f/t
1972       0.05
1973       0.06
1974       0.06
1975       0.1
1976       0.16
1977       0.17
1978       0.18
1979       0.09
1980       0.08
[...]
2011       0.13

Ben Bova took over January 1972.
Schmidt took over December 1978.

So 30% to 50% is a marked improvement even over the Ben Bova years.

Re: From a previous discussion

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

30% to 50% is quite reasonable by industry standards.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

See if William Sims Bainbridge still has his AnLab data set lying around.

Of 50 authors selected because each had ten or more stories published in Astounding or Analog between 1938 (when the Analytical Laboratory poll feature started)and 1976:

Katherine MacLean is female.

Lewis Padgett is half female (Catherine L Moore). Ditto for Lawrence O'Donnell.

Walt and Leigh Richmond are half female. (But Rich Horton's opinion is that Leigh wrote 100% of their stories.)

I am currently unable to determine whether W. Macfarlane was male or female.

(H. B. Fyfe was Horace Brown Fyfe. E. B. Cole was Everett B. Cole.)

For the purposes of his analysis, Bainbridge counts pseudonyms as separate people, e.g., Robert A. Heinlein and Anson McDonald. But coauthors are a single entity. You may not wish to do this. Either way, the Kuttners cancel out, since neither Henry nor Catherine appears in this list under their own names.